Shock-support.



G. M. MESSINGER.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT onnion.

GEORGE M. MESSINGER, 0F MECHANICSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOCK-SUPPORT.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE M. Mnssinona, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mechanicsburg, in the county of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shock-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices employed for holding corn when arranged in shocks to expedite the binding operations, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the eiiiciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device which may be erected where the shock is to be formed and operating to support the shock while the binder element is applied, and then collapsing the'improved device to enable it to be removed from the bound shock and again erected where the next shock is to be formed and bound.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a perspective view of' the improved device with the parts in collapsed position; Fig. 2 is a perspective view with the improved device arranged in operative position ready to have the-shock constructed around it.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in both viewsof the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a standard 10 having a metal conical point or shield 11 to enable the standard to be supported by driving the point into the ground where the shock is to be erected. At its upper end the standard 10 is provided with check plates 12 rigidly connected thereto and projecting above the standard 10 and also at one side of the same. Pivoted at 13 between the projecting portions of the cheek plates is a supporting member'l l, the pivot 13 being located at some distance from one end of the member 14, while the opposite end is provided with an operating Specification of Letters Patent. Patented N 21 1916 Application filed March 22, 1916.

Serial N 0. 85,994.

handle 15. The pivot 13 is so located that when the member 14 is disposed in vertical position or in parallel relation to the member 10, a portion of the member 14 will bear against one face of the member 10 and assume the position shown in Fig. 1, and when turned at right angles to the position shown in Fig. 1 a portion of the member 14 will pass between the sides of the plates 12 and bear upon the upper end of the standard 10, or assume the position shown in Fig. 2. The member 14 is perforated, as shown at 16, while the cheek plates 12 are perforated as shown at '17, and when the member 14 is turned down in horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 2, the perforations 1617 will be in transverse alinement, and when thus ar ranged a rod 18 is thrust through the alined perforations and projects beyond the cheek plates at both sides, as shown in Fig. 2. When thus arranged the two members 1418 form a cross having substantially equal length of arms and arranged in horizontal position above the post or standard '10. When thus arranged the corn which is to form the shock is piled around the post 10 and the members 1%18, which form a support for the shock while being con structed, or built up. After a sufiicient quantity of the material has been piled around the implement or supporting structure, the binding element will be applied to the shock in the ordinary manner. After the shock has been tied the rod 18 will be withdrawn and the released-members 10-44: forcibly withdrawn by power applied to the handle 15, leaving the shock in erect position upon the ground.

The members 1014: will preferably be of wood of suitable strength, while the foot or shield 11 and the plates 12 will be of metal.

The improved implement is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured, and will be of great assistance to the farmer in constructing and tying shocks of corn and like products.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In a device of the class described, a standard, cheek plates attached to the opposite faces of said standard and extending above and laterally of the same, a supporting member disposed intermediate its ends between said cheek plates a pivot device extending through the laterally extending portions of the cheek plates and through the supporting member, and a rod extending through the upwardly extending portions of the cheek plates and through the supporting member to look the supporting member between the cheek plates and holding the same in horizontal position and upon the upper end of the standard.

In testimony whereof I ture.

GEORGE M. MESSINGER. [1,. s.]

a r 10 afliX my signa- 7 Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

